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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Progressives Hate the 1st Amendment

Tolerance is fine as long as your opinion happens to fall in
line with the left; isn’t that what Political Correctness is all about? This past week KPRC had one of its managers
issue an op-ed piece railing against the use of the “Stars and Bars” on
personalized Texas
license plates. In essence it was his
opinion that such a display would only serve to agitate folks who only see it as
a sign of racial prejudice and bigotry.

When the world was young I was taught the Stars and Bars
represented the Confederacy, a link to my ancestors and a proud “in your face”
reminder that just because the South lost they couldn’t kill the spirit. You’d never guess from such a statement my
mother was born in New Orleans
and kept her accent all these years, now would ya’?

In the past several years something interesting occurred
regarding the Stars and Bars. On the one
hand some rather heavy drinking Neanderthal red neck bigots chose to use that
particular logo to emphasize their immaturity.
Then on the other side were the carpet baggin’ progressives who wanted
to rub it in a little more that the South had been defeated; don’t show that
damned flag or anything resembling it in public ever again. Did I mention my mother was a died in the wool Southerner?

In order to make sure the Stars and Bars was removed from
public view it became part of the left’s politically correct black list; only
folks who think Blacks should still be slaves would promote it and only folks
who hate blacks would show it in public.
You have to be a racist hate monger to even consider the Stars and Bars
as anything but pure hate speech. That
is what the current generation has been spoon fed so that is what they believe;
pure hogwash!

Never mind history, never mind Confederate Heritage or the Sons of the
Confederacy and how that symbol continues to link generations back a hundred
and fifty years; no, political correctness has been applied and the Stars and
Bars is hate speech.

The issue at hand is the 1st Amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Similarly, it has become hate speech to voice an opinion
which violates another of the left’s favorite topics, homosexuality. I’m not talking about folks who go out of
their way to insult some limp wrist panty waist who happens to sashay down
the sidewalk in funny looking shoes; but if the shoe fits…; no, just your plain
everyday conversation in which an opinion is expressed, something to the
effect, “I think homosexuality is a sin”. .

Progressives have taken up the banner and so the use of the
word homosexual, unless it is to compliment the Mayor of Houston, that kind of
talk is now hate speech. Hey, we are
progressives and we get to determine what is tolerated and what is hate speech.

“Fourteen-year-old Dakota Ary spent most of the day Tuesday serving an
in-school suspension. It was punishment for discussion in his German class at Fort Worth’s Western
Hills High
School.

“We were talking about religions in Germany. I said, ‘I’m a Christian.
I think being a homosexual is wrong,’” he said. “It wasn’t directed to anyone
except my friend who was sitting behind me. I guess [the teacher] heard me. He
started yelling. He told me he was going to write me an infraction and send me
to the office.”’

Ary is an honor student and probably has read and
understands the Constitution. Perhaps
his German instructor should try reading it.
Come to think of it, the “assistant principal (who) called Ary’s mother
at work to let her know he was in trouble” should read it as well. Maybe the two of them could write on the
black board, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Like it or not progressives run our public schools,
universities and fill many positions of power throughout government. This is no accident as Cleon Skousen pointed
out in his book, The Naked Communist. Here are just a few of their goals in no
particular order.

“Get control of the schools.
Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda.
Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party
line in textbooks.

Eliminate all laws governing
obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech
and free press.

Break down cultural standards
of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion
pictures, radio, and TV.

Discredit the American
Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern
needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.”

How are they doing so
far? Those who would destroy all that is
good in America
use the text of our Constitution; but only when it serves to advance their
agenda. In actuality these folks hate
the fact that freedom of speech applies to everyday conversations between
individuals, conversations which depict them as what they are, progressives
hell bent on “change”.

This article has been cross posted to The Moral Liberal, a publication whose banner reads, “Defending The
Judeo-Christian Ethic, Limited Government, & The American Constitution”.

6 comments:

"Tolerance is fine as long as your opinion happens to fall in line with the left; isn’t that what Political Correctness is all about?"

That's exactly how they feel, what they can't seem to comprehend is that with that sort of attitude, their own free speech can be stifled. All that has to happen is a shift in the balance of power. Suddenly they'll be the ones on the receiving end.

Thought you might like to know that Lari Barager's column was the most popular on the site you linked to by a two-to-one margin. Comments were coming in hot and heavy -- but now comments have been closed. Gee, I wonder why that happened.

Of course, the problem with this most difficult type of response is finding a target audience that can understand it among the PC crowd. Too many of the PC crowd have spent a lifetime drinking the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind Koolaid and stirring their own frontal lobes with a PC-approved fork.

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